Re: Transit of Venus

From: Greg Crinklaw (capellasoftyourspleen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:08:21 -0600

Ugo wrote:
> No, looks like you did your math upside down. Did you forget that the Earth
> is also spinning around the Sun so Venus actually has come catching up to
> do?

Just a friendly heads up: you might want to look up the word "spinning"
in the dictionary before you use it again...

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